Komodo dragons bury their eggs as deep as nine metres (30 feet) underground. Investigation of the creatures over subsequent years revealed some amazing characteristics. Most of the earlier details, which had been thought to be fantastic, turned out to be true. Specimens of these ‘Komodo dragons’ were sent for study to the zoo on the nearby island of Java. It wasn’t until 1910, when the civil administrator on one of Indonesia’s islands, Lieutenant van Steyn van Hensbrock, obtained specimens of the ‘dragons’ from the island of Komodo, that the outside world began receiving credible confirmation of the existence of these creatures. Naturalists dismissed the stories as imaginative nonsense. But even more unbelievable were the claims that these ‘dragons’ arose from deep under the ground, and that some lived in the trees. These giant reptiles allegedly could kill a wild pig or deer with a few rapid swipes of their tail. Some pearl divers said they shot several monsters which were close to this length. Local farmers and fishermen told stories of huge reptiles up to eight metres (26 feet) long living in the dense jungles of a few tiny Indonesian islands.
A civil administrator found ‘mythical’ creatures living on a tiny Indonesian island.
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